Istituto Di Cultura - Londra

Con e di Susanna Paisio, regia e consulenza al testo di Carola Benedetto e Luciana Ciliento. Recital e workshop CANTA ARLECCHINO! per bambini dai 4 ai 9 anni. Canzoni e filastrocche musicate e arrangiate per chitarra Arlecchino è stato cacciato dal padrone, che lo ha sorpreso nascosto in cantina a mangiare le sue...

Salon Italia In Italian with English Subtitles  Introduction and post screening discussion with Nick Walker     Director: Valerio ZurliniWriters: Dino Buzzati (novel The Tartar Steppe), André G. Brunelin (screenplay)Music: Ennio MorriconeCast: Jacques Perrin, Vittorio Gassman, Giuliano Gemm...

We are sorry to announce that the event has been cancelled due to unforeseen circumstances. We are working to reschedule the talk in the next few weeks. We apologize for any inconvenience. 12 talks on the Italian language “The most beautiful in the world” is supposed to be a supermodel and yet in Italy the ex...

Incontro del circolo di lettura, condotto da Paolo NelliGli ultimi incontri del circolo di lettura sono stati dedicati agli anni settanta nella letteratura di oggi.Gli anni settanta, per molte ragioni, hanno segnato la storia d'Italia e oggi, anche in ambito letterario, si assiste a un’attenzione sempre maggiore nei ...

The Italian Cultural Institute together with Luce Cinecittà and Ciné Lumière in London are glad to present the 9th edition of the festival celebrating the masterpieces of the Italian cinema. Get ready for some tragic, moving and inspiring films, which will introduce you to a new understanding of the Ital...

THE CYCLE From the dusk of the Ancien Régime the guitar becomes a formidable competitor of the violin and of the piano not only as accompaniment in songs, but also as lead part in chamber music and as soloist in concertos.Especially in Italy and Spain some generations of extraordinary virtuosos explore through their compos...

Presentation of the new novel Non sono stato io by Daniele Derossi The author will be in conversation with Emanuele Trevi Giacomo is 10 years old and his relationship with the world is a problematic one. When the school year begins he is no more in London but in Serena, in Piedmont. It is a small village and its few inhabitants...

The first complete retrospective of Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet in the UK1 March — 1 June 2019 Running from 1 March until 1 June 2019 across several prominent London venues, the retrospective will include Straub and Huillet’s long and short films directed between 1962 and 2006. The retrospec...

A talk by Maria Ludmila Pustka Event promoted by the Italian Embassy in London and the Italian Cultural Institute London In collaboration with Il Circolo In October and November, Maria Ludmila Pustka held the restoration interniship at the Italian Embassy in London, as a guest of the Ambassadress Vittoria Trombetta,...

In occasion of the release of The Penguin Book of Italian Short Stories, Jhumpa Lahiri, who edited and translated some of the stories, will present the collection and discuss about Italian language and literature, the process of translation, as well as the experience of working across multiple languages and cultures. The...

Presentation of the book by Lisa Ginzburg. The author will be in conversation with Jhumpa Lahiri and Marco Mancassola. Mary Shelley – the daughter of a feminist philosopher and of a political philosopher – starts to write as a game, in 1816, the novel of the new Prometheus: the story of Frankenstein and of the...

Presentation of the book by Maria Serena Sapegno The author will be in conversation with Abigail Brundin The history of literature is full of authors that have investigated the relationship between fathers and daughters, often giving voice to the daughters’ point of view, as Sophocles did with Antigone, Sha...

The Italian Cultural Institute is delighted to host Gianmarco Mancosu, the second holder of the Luisa Selis Fellowship. Funded by the Fondazione di Sardegna in memory of anthropologist Luisa Selis, who specialised in the cultural memory of Sardinia, the fellowship enables researchers in this field (ethnography, anthropology...

Presentation of the book Città irreale by Cristina Marconi The author will be present in conversation with Enrico Franceschini, journalist of “La Repubblica” and Marco Delogu, Director of the Institute. Città irreale is a novel about the city that has become a magnet for all souls: London. It i...